Walter L. Bradley
received his B.S. in Engineering Science and his Ph.D. in Materials
Science from the University of Texas in Austin. He taught for eight
years as an Assistant and Associate Professor of Metallurgical Engineering
at the Colorado School of Mines before assuming a position as Professor
of Mechanical Engineering at Texas A&M University (TAMU) in 1976.
His research area is fracture, fracture mechanics, life-time prediction,
and failure analysis. He has received over $5,000,000 in research grants
and published over 125 technical articles. He is an elected research
fellow of the American Society of Materials. He has received five college
level research awards and one national research award in recognition
of his research contributions. He also served as Head of the Department
of Mechanical Engineering at Texas A&M University, a department
of 67 faculty and 1500 students and as Director of the Polymer Technology
Center at TAMU. Dr. Bradley is currently working with Baylor University's
engineering department and is a fellow of the International
Society for Complexity Information and Design

Walter
Bradley has also performed seminal research in the origin of life, having
published journal articles and co-authoring the popular "The Mystery
of Life's Origin: Reassessing Current Theories" which remains the
best-selling advanced level text on the origin of life.